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King Richard

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The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history. From TMDB

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  • Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    I’m watching the film King Richard. It’s a difficult movie for me to watch because so much of it rings glaringly true about my own tennis days. For those who don’t know, I played semi-pro tennis from the ages of 9-19…

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  • CocoRaz🗽🎾 @leannejansenthomas.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    17 year old Thea Frodin, who was Serena’s body double in the King Richard movie, is in the USO main draw for the first time. She plays Rybakina in round 1 😭

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  • Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2025

    Don’t get me wrong, I would love some really interesting Robin Hood takes! Girl Robin Hood! The sheriff is secretly Robin Hood! King Richard is really a girl and is also Robin Hood! Comedy Robin Hood! A movie entirely about Friar Tuck! But no, he must be grim and gritty and dirty and solemn.

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  • Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2026

    All this for "King Richard," a movie no one's thought about since

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  • Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2024

    Watching a silent movie that suggests King Richard wouldn’t have gone heroically crusading if not for the love of a woman. So. Yes. About that.

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  • Jim Beaver @jumblejim.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2025

    Saturday movie: King Richard the Second (1978) *****

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  • The Last Keith @crunchyfrog.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2025

    At the mam's house. She asked if I'd seen the film about the medieval monarch she'd seen in her TV guide, as it looked right up my street. On investigation, she was referring to 'King Richard', a film about a tennis coach 🫠

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  • Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.comBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    Town cryer says, "News has come from Vienna! Leopold of Austria has seized King Richard as he returned from the Crusades!" YES! This is only the second movie to even attempt to acknowledge Richard got his ass captured in Austria and was imprisoned until Eleanor paid an ungodly ransom!

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2026

    This crown was first seen on Sean Connery as King Richard in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Rachel Ward as Queen Isabella of Castile would wear the piece the next year in the 1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.

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  • Julie 🎃👻🎶 @juliemch.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2025

    #AugustMovieChallenge #Filmsky 26. African American role model in a movie. King Richard (2021)

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  • Ben Williams @wenbbilliams.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    I think the funniest thing about this Robin Hood/not Robin Hood film drama is the possibility that US distributors genuinely don't know which King Richard is which.

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  • SJWJamesBond @mvbrat10.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    So the director and co-writer of The Punisher: One Last Kill is Reinaldo Marcus Green. His film King Richard was nominated at the Oscars for Best Picture at one point. Also made Monsters and Men (and I suspect that movie Jon Bernthal handpicked himself) and Joe Bell.

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  • The Cabinet of Doctor Alasdairi @alasdairstuart.comBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    Focus, Brilliant performance, great heist movie. He's great in King Richard, lots of internality to the role too. He's great in Suicide Squad, like far better than you'd expect. The Bad Boys are getting funner He's excellent in I Am Legend Enemy of the State too.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    #NowWatching KING RICHARD (2021). Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green. Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Some people thought Smith's Oscar-winning performance slapped (see what I did there?), but I was more moderate. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽

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  • Saxon Walker @saxonwaker.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2024

    There’s a movie coming out about here called Spark. Directed by Anthony Mackie and starring Saniyya Sidney (Venus Williams from King Richard). It’s based in the National Book Award winning “Twice Towards Justice” by Phil Hoose. It won in the young adult category, but it’s great read for anyone.

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  • Black Film Alerts 🎥 @blackfilmalerts.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    ‘King Richard’ (2021) is now streaming on Netflix U.S. The film stars Will Smith, Demi Singleton, and Saniyya Sidney.

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  • J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2026

    I would love a Robin Hood film to break from the Prince John/King Richard setting.

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  • Putte / Pia Lykke Wise @pialykke80.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2025

    Film nr.23 i #PuttesFilmBingo er King Richard Krav: Sports film. Jeg har det meget ambivalent med Will Smith, men havde stadig lyst til at se filmen og den præstation, han fik en Oscar for. Aunjanue Ellis spiller fuldstændig fantastisk som Oracene og blev også nomineret. En god og rørende film.

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  • Mezzo @averycooltiger.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2026

    the way King Richard appeared in the very last scene of the movie & had only two lines but was still the gay furry awakening for so many young men... A very talented lion he is <3

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  • ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    I didn't realize it was from the director of KING RICHARD, which explains how they got Robert Elswit to shoot it. (It looks like a movie, and not a Marvel one.)

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  • Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2025

    Will Smith is excellent in King Richard imo. Such a shame the events at the Oscars with 'Slapgate' have overshadowed his performance in this film.

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  • Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    "May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure, sire." A great end to a great movie. #1938Robin #TCMParty The 1922 film ends with King Richard jealously banging on the door of Robin and Marian's bedchamber. Pre-code days.

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  • conicats @conicats.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    9/15 Sports biopic in a movie King Richard - 2021 (Venus and Serena Williams) 6#SeptemberMovieChallenge #FilmSky #Movies #Challenges

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  • Princess Lisa SkyWalker @paraprod.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    I thought I recognized her name. Thea Frodin played young Serena in the King Richard movie. This week, she got to show off her own tennis skills at the #USOpen women's tennis singles. What a great story!😊🎾😺 @joseencarnacion.bsky.social #WTA www.nytimes.com/athletic/755...

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  • Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.comBluesky · Jul 14, 2026

    So I looked it up and Sean Connery was 61 years old when he appeared in this film as King Richard. Richard was only 37 at this point in history and died at age 41. I will say that I like that everybody kneels...except Akeem who is a bit confused at what he should do.

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  • Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2026

    Oh wait, that checks out. There’s a scene in the 1938 film that is absolutely about Hoovervilles and soup kitchens. King Richard is FDR.

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  • Tom Buckner @justanotherant.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    So I found out Price did a 1962 movie called Tower of London where he plays none other than King Richard III. Shakespeare by way of Roger Corman! Poster says: DO YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO SPEND 83 MINUTES IN THE TOWER OF LONDON? www.imdb.com/title/tt0056...

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  • Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    Along with the 6 degrees of Separation, not only did Connery appear as King Richard in the Costner film, his son Jason Connery played Robin Hood in the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood. Which ties with Flynn for my favourite cinematic Robin adaptation. #TCMParty #RandM76

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  • Will @uxwd87.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    I really wish "King Richard" used this book as a guide to tell his story. So many gems and revelations that would have helped the film have more depth and tell HIS actual story. -- So Good Rating - 4.5 / 5 #BookSky

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  • Jill S @outseide.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2024

    Today’s movie is The Lost King with Sally Hawkins, about a woman who becomes interested in finding King Richard III’s remains. It’s based on a true story.

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  • Jair, The Literary Masturbator @jairtlm.blacksky.appBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    Five years ago, 12 year old #TheaFrodin was the stunt double for young Serena Williams in the movie King Richard. Tomorrow, Thea makes her US Open debut after winning a wild card entry

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  • Houstorian @houstorian.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2026

    Today in 2022, native Houstonian Beyonce is nominated for her first Academy Award for co-writing the original song “Be Alive” from the film “King Richard.” @theacademyusa.bsky.social

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  • Elder Sod Bats @decarabats.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    Make a movie about how King Richard sucked, actually

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  • B-Squared @fourdastreets.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    Movie: King Richard (Netflix) This was actually a sweet movie. Regardless of how Richard Williams is as a person in reality, we should all know by now how Hollywood biographies go and as a Hollywood biography, this was great. I say that as someone who doesn't enjoy tennis. #filmsky

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  • Shade the AshClad @shade-the-ashclad.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2025

    The Robin Hood legend traditionally takes place in the reign of King Richard I (as does the film), well before transition to Early Modern English and the Great Vowel Shift that came with it. In other words, the English accent of the time would've been very different then Cary Elwes's English accent.

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  • TheRealityComics @therealitycomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    Aww!!😫 I was a teen. My recollection—& I do NOT mean to dump on your movie, this is JUST what I recall thinking in the theater—is: Rickman being GREAT & seeming to be in a totally dif't film, Costner sounding as British as Matthew McConaughey, & a Scottish King Richard being hysterically funny.

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  • Geoffrey Henry @gdhenry.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    King Richard. I love this movie. I also love Will Smith's performance.

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  • Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    He is correct. King Richard didn’t spend much time in England. Even less in this film that seems to cut out his return to England in 1194 before fighting in France. #TCM #TCMParty #RandM76

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  • aric @aghastronaut.comBluesky · Jun 5, 2024

    I think a good Robin Hood movie would be King Richard leaves his kid in the castle alone and he has to beat Robin Hood up with a bunch of traps.

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  • @squalo - #teamAnts with an Asterisk (*) 🇲🇽 ✨🌟 @squalo.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    ok, never heard of it. I think i assumed it was yet another reality show. The last tennis movie I watched was King Richard.

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  • Beck Jones @beckjoneshere.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2026

    Next up for Greengrass is The Uprising coming in September, about the 1381 peasants' revolt against King Richard III, that arose in part from the fallout of the Black Death. Hmmm, methinks there may be parallels.... #moviesky #filmsky #botd

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  • David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    ooh is that a new Andrew Garfield movie? "directed by Paul Greengrass, starring Andrew Garfield as Wat Tyler, leader of the 1381 English Peasants' Revolt against King Richard II." huh. youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkr...

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  • Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2026

    Robin and Marian is definitely the movie for you, then. That movie DESPISES King Richard.

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  • Briana @bri-elyse1.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2026

    Why does TruTv hate its audience so bad? I don't understand lol. They don't play King Richard or The Karate Kid half as much as they play this one shitty ass movie lol. My god...enough 😩

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  • Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    Between 1935 and 1938 Ian Hunter was paired in seven films with Kay Francis. One of his standout roles was as King Richard the Lionheart in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood.

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  • Geoffrey Henry @gdhenry.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    King Richard. I love Will Smith's performance in this movie.

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  • Medieval Archives @medievalarchives.comBluesky · Mar 25, 2025

    King Richard getting shot is depicted in a few Robin Hood movies. In 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘯 it is a somewhat comical depiction in an otherwise dramatic movie. medievalarchives.com/93

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  • MarkyMark007 🦋 🇵🇱 🇪🇺 @markymark007.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2025

    I am the Butterfly so Good Sunday to all .. Rick Macci: "I think you might have another Michael Jordan. Richard Williams: No, brother, I've got two more Jordans" King Richard [no. 95] PROGRAMMED * Imdb - max rating 7.5! Your first time with a movie: where, when, with whom ??? ...

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  • alt.tv.pink-opaque @maxrebosroadie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2024

    also I love that this episode is shamelessly “King Richard with murder”, and there’s nothing wrong with that. turn every notable prestige-y movie into the basis of a murder plot imo.

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  • Magenta Rocks @magentarocks.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    Fun fact: Thea Frodin portrayed young Serena Williams in the movie King Richard.

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  • Ian Nathaniel Cohen @incspotlight.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2026

    Tower of London (1939) - a historical horror movie that literally turns King Richard III (Basil Rathbone) into a horror movie villain, with his executioner Mord (Boris Karloff) doing Richard’s bloody dirty work. It doesn’t QUITE stick the landing as a horror movie, but it’s an interesting watch.

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  • John, EdD 🇦🇶🇺🇦🖖🏼🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 @drjohn2021.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    April 27/Day 117 A movie character who is a king In Recognition of King’s Day (Netherlands) #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge Sean Connery as King Richard “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (1991)

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  • TheRealityComics @therealitycomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    When you said "Air," I was thinking it was Don't Look Up, which everyone lauded, and I felt was barely a movie. I'd been warned away from Maestro by critiques online and a couple of friends who saw it. I like King Richard tho' (to my own surprise). What were your issues w/it?

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  • Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2026

    Remember when people used to say history was boring? Now I think a lot about the "storytelling" around it. Of course this is as old as time. Silly example (from recent TCM viewings), but compare the King Richard the Lionheart in the Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie to the one in Robin and Marian.

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  • Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    Film-wise: at 6.30, Jurassic World: Dominion on ITV1. At 7pm, Ride The High Country on 5Action. At 9pm, The Quick & The Dead on Great Action or About Time on Comedy Central. At 10.05, Knives Out on C4. At 11.15, The Northman on Film4. At 11.30, King Richard on BBC2. At 12.35am Scarface on C4 #telly

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  • Andrew Joe Potter @andrewjoepotter.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2025

    The 2021 film economy was still very murky after the calamity of 2020. King Richard opened to $5.4M domestically versus a $50M production budget. The Smashing Machine opened to $6M domestically vs. a $50M production budget (and seemingly a zillion dollar ad spend).

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  • David Mitchell @davidalanmitch5.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2025

    For all those hoping to escape the tennis on British TV today, they’ve put a movie on. Let’s see, what is it?…. “King Richard”.🙄 Followed by something about Serena Williams. @BBC Not everyone likes tennis.

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  • Karim Waiyaki 🇵🇸 @waiyaki.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2025

    King Richard 2021 🌟🌟🌟🌟4/5 Rating Outstanding performance by Will - Crazy, passionate, borderline abusive all in search of greatness. The movie is more about Venus than Serena Williams, but both take a backseat to the King. Amazing movie! #filmsky #blacksky

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  • Andlat L Fox 🔜 AQF @andlat.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2025

    "Robin Hood is my favorite movie" "They made Prince John a lion like his cousin King Richard" You watch the movie with the sound off, huh?

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  • Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    The film suggests that Robin would come again after the Crusades. In reality, King Richard returned from the crusades and captivity in 1194, sieged Nottingham Castle and then went hunting in Sherwood. #TCM #TCMParty #RandM76

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